Our Pond #5: New Additions
July 1, 2008 There two cast iron pieces were just too cute to pass up. I think they are perfect additions to the pond. 1) Daisy Duck 2) Fairy with Butterfly on Toe
Our Pond #4: Newest Inhabitant
June 10, 2008 For the past couple of weeks we’ve been hearing a huge splash in the pond and haven’t been able to see what it was, although we figured that it was a frog. Yesterday, we finally saw him. So here’s Freddy.
Around the Yard #5: Happy Landscape.. Kinda..
I’m hardly finished with anything. Though things are underway, which is great; they are far from finished. I’d been working to clean up around the old oak tree so that I could get it in better shape and do a proper mulch ring around it, for the sake of the tree. The tree had a serious problem with Virginia Creeper and an issue with Poison Ivy over it as well. The one wasn’t so bad, but eesh! The creeper was doing it huge damage. I’d never know that stuff gets so ...
Our Pond #3: New Fish and...
April 25, 2008 I had to go to town today so i made a couple other stops and did some garden shopping :D 1) I bought some blue pansies to put in my “frog pond” flower bed—3 metal frog sculptures surrounded by the blue pansies which looks like water if you use your imagination. 2) three blueberry bushes. —location for them yet to be determined and 3) fish.I got 2 shubunkins (is that the right word?) and one little goldfish (maybe not a good decision after rea...
Our Pond #2: Refurbished Pond
April 20, 2008 On our list of garden updates this year was making the pond deep enough so that our fish could stay in it for the winter. Here is where we started this morning:Yes, that’s the neighbour’s dog, Gabby, laying in one of the two little “pond” holes from last year. Not quite sure how she fit into it but she loves being cool and I guess the hole did it for her. We then spent the day digging.. and digging.. and digging.. One area is almost 4’...
Garden Maintenance #1: Patched the Pond
Well, after spending the winter with a hole in it, only filled 1/3rd of the way up I decided to patch the pond. Took it out and looked it over, found one spot where a large root cracked the liner, and two other dents that I needed to reinforce. Since I put in the dog door through the wall of the dog room, I had some window flashing left. The kind with the silver foil face and tar backing that sticks to anything? A few squares of that and a bit of heat from a torch and it was all patched up...
Our Pond #1: From a speck of water to...
As we build our personal retreat in the backyard, we seem to just go with the moment and build/add whatever feels right. For example, last summer my son and his family moved from Ontario across the country to British Columbia. They left behind a small fountain that they had in their backyard. “Sure, I’ll take it”, I said, wanting a fountain but having no idea where it would go in our acre piece of land. This spring we decided that we would put it in the ground: just ma...
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